Former air hostess Mandy Smith, 42, (pictured on This Morning last year) was forced to call the police after her memoir provoked a series of online attacks

A former air hostess who revealed she had sex in an airliner cockpit claims she received death threats after exposing the secrets of cabin crew lifestyle in her tell-all book.

Mandy Smith, 42, who now lives in Brighton, East Sussex, says she was forced to call the police after her memoir 'CabinFever: The Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Air Hostess' provoked a series of vicious online attacks.

Internet trolls used pictures of Ms Smith alongside those of her daughter and husband, Glen, in order to post hurtful messages including death threats on a Facebook group.

Ms Smith said: 'It was pretty scary. One man wrote he was going to hunt me down and kill me.

'I don't understand what people's problem is - the things people were saying were disgusting.

'They were asking how many STDs I have.

'One girl blamed me for her divorce - she claimed her husband had become excessively paranoid after seeing stories about sex and parties from the book.

'It has really tarnished my whole experience of writing the book.'

She added: 'They were even making really derogatory comments about my daughter.

'That was the worst thing - I was so incensed by that I went to the police.'

The book, released in the UK last year, lifted the lid on her 10-year career with Virgin Atlantic and included tales of being courted by billionaire suitors and having sex with her pilot boyfriend in the cockpit of a two-seater Cessna plane.

All of the characters in the book are based on her real friends, whose identities have been concealed through pseudonyms they chose.

'More than once, I had a passenger slide his hand up my skirt when I was attending to the overhead compartment,' she said. 'And when the lights are dimmed on overnight flights, I’d see randy passengers masturbating while everyone else around them slept.

'Then there was the couple in the throes of passion who ran around upper-class butt naked. It was a lot to put up with.'

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In an interview with the New York Post, she went on to discuss having sex with a pilot boyfriend in the cockpit of a small two-seater Cessna and told of a fling with an Arab billionaire during a layover in Dubai.

'We spent the night sailing around the Persian Gulf,' she added, 'holding hands and munching on salmon tartare, lobster and caviar.'

But speaking in an interview with MailOnline last year, Ms Smith, who wrote her book Cabin Fever after leaving the airline, admitted that the job wasn't always so glamorous.

'Obviously we had a lot of fun times but I did leave a lot out because I didn’t want it to seem like that was all we did,’ she says.

Ms Smith's first book 'CabinFever: The Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Air Hostess' (pictured left) provoked a series of online attacks for its salcious revelations about what life is life as a member of the cabin crew